DENVER Offering deficit-cutting ideas before his first debate with President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney says he might be willing to reduce income tax deductions used by millions of families for home mortgage interest and health care costs.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Pennsylvania's highest court on Tuesday told a lower court judge to stop a tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification from taking effect in this year's presidential election if he finds voters cannot get easy access to ID cards or if he thinks voters will be disenfranchised.

A Cessna airplane touched down about midnight, dropped a load of drugs and was back in the air in 90 seconds. Suddenly, the pilot of a U.S. border patrol helicopter hovering nearby turned on a powerful spotlight and tracked an SUV fleeing with hockey bags stuffed with 175 pounds (79 kilograms) of marijuana and 400,000 Ecstasy-type pills.

The scientific successes of World War II led to a feeling that science could accomplish anything, maybe even find a way to turn aside or destroy hurricanes. Dulling the fangs of such monster storms is something that scientists studied for nearly 20 years before giving up on the idea in 1980.

When Judge Edward Cashman sentenced a man to a 60-day prison sentence for sexually abusing a child, he said he wanted to make sure he got treatment that was unavailable to the criminal from inside a jail cell. Commentators have since attacked him for being too soft. Thursday, the case is scheduled to return to court, where the state hopes a harsher sentence will be dealt..